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MOGADISHU — Officials from the United Nations Children’s Fund (UNICEF) have carried out a sensitization program for thousands of high school children from Somalia on outbreak response. UNICEF in a statement said, they sensitized 1,500 high school children in Jubbaland’s administrative capital on different aspects of natural calamity response including …

JOWHAR — The deputy minister of education for the federal government of Somalia, Ahmed Osman Ibrahin, officially re-launched a school in the Mahaas area that had been demolished a few months earlier by Al-Shabaab militants The district commissioner of the Mahaas district, Mumin Mohamed Halane, and the minister of education …

NAIROBI — The greater part of the Horn of Africa is expected to receive heavy rains between January and March 2024, with the weather pattern following recent El Nino rains, the Intergovernmental Authority on Development’s Climate Prediction and Applications Center (ICPAC) said on Friday. The institution, based in the Kenyan …

MOGADISHU — The UN Children’s Fund, UNICEF, said Thursday that it’s appealing for 222.2 million U.S. dollars to support 3.2 million Somali people, including 2 million children, in 2024. “Approximately half of Somalis face a shortage of sustainable and safe water for drinking and other household needs, which has increased …

DIINSOOR — African Union Transition Mission in Somalia (ATMIS) personnel stationed at Diinsoor Forward Operating Base (FOB) facilitated the safe delivery of humanitarian aid to internally displaced persons (IDPs) and the vulnerable populations in Baraaway and its environs. According to a statement from ATMIS, the troops protected the locals and …

MOGADISHU — The World Food Program (WFP) has said it requires 364 million U.S. dollars in net funding across all activities to scale up humanitarian assistance in Somalia between December 2023 and May 2024. The WFP said in its latest report released on Tuesday night that out of the figure, …

MOGADISHU — The Qatar Red Crescent Society (QRCS) has successfully concluded a medical convoy offering general surgery and urology services at the De Martini Government Hospital in Mogadishu, Somalia.This initiative, a collaboration with Somalia’s Ministry of Health, was funded with a total of 416,302 QAR. Spanning 17 days, the project …

JAMAME — Jubaland troops have rescued families, mostly women and children, who were stranded for two days due to flooding in Jamame me district. Federal MPs, Jubaland Ministers, politicians, senior advisors, and other officials have traveled to the northern areas of the Lower Juba region, especially the areas under Jamame …

MOGADISHU — The Turkish Red Crescent (TRC) has started a cataract surgery project for over 500 people in Somalia who otherwise could not afford it. Announcing the project on Monday at the National Eye Hospital in the capital Mogadishu, Taner Kurt, deputy head of the Turkish Red Crescent Somalia delegation, …

MOGADISHU — The Ministry of Livestock, Forestry, and Range of the Federal Government of Somalia officially launched a project in Building Resilience for Food and Nutrition Security in the Horn of Africa. This project was jointly launched by the Deputy Prime Minister of the country Salah Ahmed Jama and the …